The Nielsen Gallery in Boston lent multiple works for this exhibition. Additional
paintings are on loan from Alpha Gallery, Boston, and the Frances Young Tang Teaching
Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College. Sattler conceived the exhibition, which
was co-curated by his Skidmore colleagues, Peter Stake, associate professor of art,
and David Miller, professor of art and director of the Schick Art Gallery.

The eye attunes, pastoral warbler, always. Joy in the cradle of calamity Wakes though dim voices work at lullaby. Triumph of vision: the act by which we see Is both the landscape-gardening of our dream And the root's long revel under the clipped lawn.

James Merrill from Foliage of Vision (1951)

"Enthusiasm and exultation" are the primary characteristics of determined artists;
so said Cennino d'Andrea Cennini in his 14th century treatise and technical manual
Il Libro dell'Arte. Such are the qualities to be found in our exhibition of painters, The New American
Sublime. (more)